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KacheliTV — the world's stories, read aloud.

Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here.

We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed.

New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep.

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  • S156 · E1
    October 27 · 24 min

    Tales of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson River) — Part 1

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tales of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson River) — Part 1 Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Eight tales of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson River) people of British Columbia, from Traditions of the Thompson River Indians (1898), the collection James Teit made and Franz Boas introduced — heard in Teit's English, read as printed. In The Dog and the Girl, a chief's daughter who refused every suitor takes a dog's children into the hills, and at dawn finds them throwing off their dogskins to play as children. In The Sun and his Daughter, a suitor wins the Sun's daughter, and when she comes home late and unbidden her father turns her into the travelling sun, and her children into sun-dogs. The Chipmunk keeps the great log burning against the Grizzly Bear and carries the stripes on his back for it — told twice over, as Teit prints both the Grizzly and the Black Bear versions. In the Ants' tale, a brother carried under the ground learns from a falling tear that his brother above is searching for him. The Beaver lets himself be shot for the Eagle's sake, and the clam-shell of fire falls into the lodge, and fire goes out over the whole country. A boy, an Elk, and two forbidden boxes — one of fire, one of water — give the world its lakes, rivers, and fire in every wood. The Mosquito's lie about sucking blood from the tree-tops is why the Thunder strikes trees to this day. And the deer once leapt from mountain-top to mountain-top, until a woman's thrown breech-clout brought them down to a moderate jump. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Love 2, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters: 0:41 — The Dog and the Girl 6:37 — The Sun and his Daughter 9:41 — Story of the Chipmunk and the Grizzly Bear — and The Black Bear and the Chipmunk 11:32 — Story of the Ants and the Two Brothers 16:36 — The Beaver and the Eagle; or, the Origin of Fire 19:00 — Story of Fire and Water 20:54 — The Mosquito and the Thunder 22:14 — Origin of the Deer Ten more of the book's tales stand excluded by name after a full reading: Story of the Bush-Tailed Rat · The Ball · The Coyote's Daughters and their Dogs · Origin of Fire, Another Version · Battle of the Birds · The Marten and the Fisher · The Hare and the Grizzly Bears · Story of Aq · The Raven · The Coyote and his Guests. Three stand held for a later ruling and are not read here: The Hot and the Cold Winds · Story of the Otter · The Skunk and the Badger. One clean tale stands on the bench for a later part: Story of the Lad who Caught the Wind. The two Lillooet tales Teit appends are a different people's and are not read on this shelf. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia by James Teit, with an introduction by Franz Boas (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. VI, 1898), public domain — Teit's English text, read as printed. Narrated by Silas. Theme: Love 2. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S149 · E1
    October 27 · 33 min

    Folk Tales of Costa Rica — Part 1: Juan, the Boy with the Little Load of Firewood · The Devil's Mother-in-Law · Uncle Rabbit's Trick on Aunt Whale and Uncle Elephant · How Uncle Rabbit Got Out of a Tight Corner | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Costa Rica — Part 1 (Juan, the Boy with the Little Load of Firewood · The Devil's Mother-in-Law · How Uncle Rabbit Played a Dirty Trick on Aunt Whale and Uncle Elephant · How Uncle Rabbit Got Out of a Tight Corner) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Four folk tales of Costa Rica from Carmen Lyra's Cuentos de mi tía Panchita (San José, 1920), the tales her aunt Panchita told her in San José, heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from the Spanish. The tale-types are old ones from the wider world, carried in tía Panchita's Costa Rican voice — no claim is made that the types began in Costa Rica. In Juan, the Boy with the Little Load of Firewood, the "fool" of three brothers is rewarded for his obedience with a wishing wand, finds the youngest princess's lost ring in the pool, and rides his load of firewood to the palace to claim the king's promise. In The Devil's Mother-in-Law, a rich, gold-toothed bridegroom who walks on ceilings is recognised by his wife's mother for who he is, tricked into an iron jar and buried in the mountain — until a poor woodcutter lets him out, and only one name can frighten him free of the queen he refuses to leave. In How Uncle Rabbit Played a Dirty Trick on Aunt Whale and Uncle Elephant, Uncle Rabbit sets the two strongest creatures on Earth pulling against each other on one rope, to break their plan of governing the world between them. And in How Uncle Rabbit Got Out of a Tight Corner, cornered in a cave in Uncle Tiger's paw, Rabbit deepens his voice and bluffs his way free. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Gangster Piano Symphony, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 Juan, the Boy with the Little Load of Firewood 9:24 The Devil's Mother-in-Law 21:17 How Uncle Rabbit Played a Dirty Trick on Aunt Whale and Uncle Elephant 28:33 How Uncle Rabbit Got Out of a Tight Corner Ten further tales of the book are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: El tonto de las adivinanzas · Uvieta · Escomponte perinola · La Cucarachita Mandinga · La casita de las torrejas · La flor del olivar · El pájaro dulce encanto · Tío Conejo y Tío Coyote · Por qué Tío Conejo tiene las orejas tan largas · Tío Conejo comerciante. Four more tales stand benched for a ruling, and the book's last five Tío Conejo tales were not reachable in full in the copy of record and are held for a full-corpus pass. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Cuentos de mi tía Panchita by Carmen Lyra (San José, 1920), public domain — tales III and VIII and two tales of the Cuentos de tío Conejo, complete and in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the Spanish. Narrated by Benedetto. Theme: Gangster Piano Symphony. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S150 · E1
    October 27 · 26 min

    Folk Tales of the San (ǀXam) — Part 1 (The Children Are Sent to Throw the Sleeping Sun into the Sky · The Girl of the Early Race, Who Made Stars · The Son of the Wind)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three tales of the ǀXam people of the Kalahari from Specimens of Bushman Folklore (London, 1911), the record Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd made from ǀXam narrators in the 1870s — heard in the editors' own English translation, read as printed. In The Children Are Sent to Throw the Sleeping Sun into the Sky, the Sun is a man whose light shines only from his armpit as he lies sleeping, and the children creep up, take hold of him all together, and throw him up into the sky, telling him to become altogether the Sun, so that the whole earth will be bright and the Bushman rice will dry. In The Girl of the Early Race, Who Made Stars, a girl of the first people throws wood ashes into the sky to make the Milky Way, and then the red huin roots that become the stars. And in The Son of the Wind, a boy rolling a ball to his playmate must never speak the other one's name aloud — until the day the hut stands sheltered, when he cries it out, and the Wind falls down and blows the people's huts away. The episode opens and closes with its theme, LOVE, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 The Children Are Sent to Throw the Sleeping Sun into the Sky 10:45 The Girl of the Early Race, Who Made Stars 16:30 The Son of the Wind Thirteen more of the book's tales are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: !Gaunu-Tsaxau, the Baboons, and the Mantis · The Story of the Leopard Tortoise · The Origin of Death · #Kagára and !Haunu, Who Fought Each Other with Lightning · The Hyena's Revenge (both versions) · The Lion Jealous of the Voice of the Ostrich · The Mason Wasp and His Wife · The Young Man of the Ancient Race, Who Was Carried Off by a Lion · The Girl's Story; The Frogs' Story · The Man Who Ordered His Wife to Cut Off His Ears · The #Nerru and Her Husband · The Death of the Lizard. Three items stand held for a later ruling and are not read here: The Mantis Assumes the Form of a Hartebeest · !Ko-g!nuing-tara, Wife of the Dawn's-Heart Star · the Appendix tales. One item, What the Stars Say, and a Prayer to a Star, is a prayer and stands parked. Five clean tales are held on the bench for Part 2: The Resurrection of the Ostrich · The Vultures, Their Elder Sister, and Her Husband · Dai-Xerreten, the Lioness, and the Children · A Woman of the Early Race and the Rain Bull · The Great Star !Gaunu. The book's songs and its history and customs sections are not tales and are not read on this shelf. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Specimens of Bushman Folklore by W. H. I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd (London, 1911), public domain — the editors' English translation, read as printed. The tales were told by the ǀXam narrators ǁkabbo, Dia!kwain, ǀa!kunta, !Kweiten ta ǁken and ǀhan≠kasso; the third tale ǀhan≠kasso had from his mother, ǂabbi-an. The principal narrators were prisoners at the Breakwater Convict Station, released into the Bleek household's custody; it was there that they taught their language and told these stories. Narrated by Scratch. Theme: LOVE. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S153 · E1
    October 27 · 23 min

    Ojibwe and Algonquian Tales — Part 1 (Peboan and Seegwun · La Poudre, or The Storm-Fool · The Broken Wing · Shawondasee) | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Ojibwe and Algonquian Tales — Part 1 (Peboan and Seegwun · La Poudre, or The Storm-Fool · The Broken Wing · Shawondasee) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Four tales from Algic Researches (New York, 1839), Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's landmark collection of Ojibwe and other Algonquian oral tradition — a record made with his wife, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), whose own Ojibwe family's stories stand behind many of its pages — read here in the English of the 1839 edition, as printed. In Peboan and Seegwun, Winter keeps his icy lodge while the birds fly south, until young Seegwun comes breathing spring, and the two spirits divide the year between them in peace. In La Poudre, or The Storm-Fool, Pauppukeewiss dances his strange petition before the ice castles of Gitchiguma, wins sacks of snow that turn to fish — and learns how quickly a gift can be read as an offence. In The Broken Wing, two brothers shoot at a falling mark until mercy stays the next arrow; the vulture they nurse back to strength repays them with a warning that saves their village. And in Shawondasee, the spirit of the south wind sighs for the golden-haired maiden of the northern prairie, and learns too late that he has loved the dandelion. The episode opens and closes with its theme, January Lament, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 Peboan and Seegwun 4:57 La Poudre, or The Storm-Fool 12:01 The Broken Wing 19:23 Shawondasee Five narratives of the collection are held for a ruling — the sacred and ceremonial tales Iadilla and Mon-Daw-Min, Leelinau, Git-Chee-Gau-Zinee and Paradise Opened to the Indians — and three more (Iosco, Wassamo and The Grave Light) were not cleared for this build; twenty-four further tales are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading. Eight tales passed the screen and stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf. The shelf is billed as what it is — Ojibwe and Algonquian tales in Schoolcraft's literary retellings of 1839, crediting Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft — and no claim of completeness for the collection is made. From Algic Researches by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1839), public domain — Peboan and Seegwun and The Broken Wing from the first volume, La Poudre and Shawondasee from the second, complete and in the order read here, in the English of the original edition, not a new translation. Narrated by Morgana. Theme: January Lament. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S152 · E1
    October 27 · 23 min

    Folk Tales of Catalonia — Part 1 (The Ball of Golden Thread · The Cinder-Maid · The Little Box) | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Catalonia — Part 1 (The Ball of Golden Thread · The Cinder-Maid · The Little Box) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three folk tales of Catalonia, collected by Francesc de Sales Maspons i Labrós and published in his Lo Rondallayre (Barcelona, 1871–1875); heard here in a fresh translation from the Catalan, made for this episode. In The Ball of Golden Thread (Lo capdell d'or), a king's daughter turned out of her home will not part with the little old woman's gift — not for good money, not for jewels and riches — except in a matter of marriage. In The Cinder-Maid (La ventafochs), a girl kept at the cinder-hearth cracks an almond, a hazelnut and a walnut, and goes to Mass, to the promenade and to the king's son's ball in dresses of gold, of silver and of little bells — until a little glass slipper is left behind on the stair. And in The Little Box (La capseta), a poor man finds an old, ugly box in a ruined castle, and everything his family wishes for comes out of it — until pride hides the box away in an attic, and the sons who were turned away at the door come home from the war. The episode opens and closes with its theme, LOVE 2, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 The Ball of Golden Thread 7:45 The Cinder-Maid 13:40 The Little Box Two further tales of the collection are held for a ruling: La gavia d'or (The Golden Cage) and Barba d'or (Golden Beard). Fourteen tales are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: Lo claveller · La flor del penical · La fustots · La rateta · La perera · Lo beneyt · Las tres taronjas del amor · La cirereta · Altafulla · La cabreta · Los dos geperuts · La noya dels cabells d'or · La coloma blanca · Lo espabilat. Five more tales passed the screen and stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf; the collection's second volume and twenty-eight further tales of the first and third volumes await screening. No claim of completeness for the collection is made. From Lo Rondallayre: Quentos populars catalans by Francesc de Sales Maspons i Labrós (Barcelona, 1871–1875), public domain — The Ball of Golden Thread and The Cinder-Maid from the first volume (1871), The Little Box from the third (1875), complete and in book order, in a fresh translation from the Catalan. Narrated by Bruno. Theme: LOVE 2. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S103 · E3
    October 27 · 32 min

    The Musical Break — World Lullaby

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Season 103 · Episode 3 — the third of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics: six lullabies from around the world, and nothing else — no tales this time, and no talk at all. Tonight the musical break becomes a cradle. Twelve lullabies were gathered from the house library, sung in Portuguese, Russian, French, English, Spanish, German and Jamaican, and they are played in two episodes of six — each song in full, each one fading slowly out as the next fades slowly in, the way one breath gives way to the next. This first episode drifts from the Portuguese shore to a Russian fairy tale, across the magic land asleep, past the little sheep of France, and ends by counting sheep in English. There is no narration in this episode — only the songs, from the first note to the last. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Shhh, O Mar Sabe 5:10 Spi, Skazka 10:32 Spit Volshebnaya Zemlya 15:54 Chut, Tout Doucement 21:23 Chut, Les Petits Moutons 26:48 One Hundred Little Sheep THE MUSIC Six lullabies from the house library, played here in full: Shhh, O Mar Sabe (sung in Portuguese) · Spi, Skazka (Russian — "Sleep, Little Tale") · Spit Volshebnaya Zemlya (Russian — "The Magic Land Sleeps") · Chut, Tout Doucement (French — "Hush, Very Gently") · Chut, Les Petits Moutons (French — "Hush, the Little Sheep") · One Hundred Little Sheep (English). The second episode of World Lullaby carries six more — in English, Spanish, German and Jamaican — twelve lullabies in all. Music: the house composer's lullabies, played in full. No narration and no conversation — each song fades gently into the next, and the episode itself fades in at the start and away to silence at the end.

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  • S137 · E2
    October 27 · 27 min

    Folk Tales of Cuba — Part 2: Ornoya · The Caiman · The Black Venus | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Cuba — Part 2 (Ornoya · The Caiman · The Black Venus) Part two. Three more traditions and legends of Cienfuegos, on Cuba's south coast, collected by Pedro Modesto Hernández and published by Adrián del Valle in Tradiciones y leyendas de Cienfuegos (Havana, 1919); heard here in a fresh in-house English translation from the Spanish. In Ornoya, the people of Jagua honour their hero, the victor over the fierce Lucaya chief Ornocoy, in the great ceremonial ground — the aged chief's collar and massive war club, the ball game of batos, the dances and songs, and the mock battles with which the festival closes. In The Caiman, the neighbours of the new-born Fernandina de Jagua, plagued night after night by a great caiman carrying off their animals, lie in wait for it — and Monsieur Bonón, his gun raised, hears the beast cry out in a perfectly human voice: "Don't shoot, Monsieur, for I am your friend!" And in The Black Venus, the mute woman of Cayo Loco, who will not eat, work or be clothed rather than live captive, slips away at last into legend as the silent protest against slavery. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Bandoneon Street Romance, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:55 Ornoya 7:22 The Caiman 16:25 The Black Venus Four further tales of the book are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: Guanaroca · Marilope · El combate de las piraguas · El Cristo de la Vereda. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Tradiciones y leyendas de Cienfuegos by Adrián del Valle with Pedro Modesto Hernández (1919), public domain — in a fresh in-house English translation from the Spanish. Narrated by Mira. Theme: Bandoneon Street Romance. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S136 · E2
    October 27 · 22 min

    Folk Tales of the Congo — Part 2: The Two-Coloured Coat · The Crafty Woman Overreaches Herself · How the Fetish Sunga Punished Basa · The Fight between the Two Fetishes · The Fetish of Chilunga · and Five More Tales | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Congo — Part 2 (The Two-Coloured Coat · The Crafty Woman Overreaches Herself · How the Fetish Sunga Punished Basa · The Fight between the Two Fetishes, Lifuma and Chimpukela · The Fetish of Chilunga · The Bird-Messengers · Nzambi Mpungu's Ambassador · Why the Crocodile Does Not Eat the Hen · The Three Brothers · The Story of a Partnership) | KacheliTV World Classics Ten more tales from the Fjort country of the French Congo, gathered by R. E. Dennett and first published in 1898, read here in a second complete sitting: a fisher's coat of two colours that speaks, tames the bush and knows his wife's thoughts; a wife who tries to tempt a fetish with plantains and is seen through at once; the sunken town of Boio beneath the river, where the fetish Sunga keeps his feast and punishes a greedy guest; two wonder-working fetishes, Lifuma and Chimpukela, at war over a stolen kite; the bush fetish Chilunga, whom no hangings of cloth can charm; the doves Nzambi Mpungu sent to learn why men live and why they die; his ambassador, sent across the seas for dolls that walk and speak; why the crocodile never eats the hen; three brothers who learn the speech of beasts and birds; and a trading partnership of three that greed divides. Narrated by Violetta. An instrumental theme — Midnight Forbidden Saxophone — opens and closes the program and is heard briefly between the stories. Chapters: 0:00 Opening theme — Midnight Forbidden Saxophone 0:37 1. The Two-Coloured Coat 2:42 2. The Crafty Woman Overreaches Herself 4:26 3. How the Fetish Sunga Punished Basa 6:57 4. The Fight between the Two Fetishes, Lifuma and Chimpukela 10:07 5. The Fetish of Chilunga 13:24 6. The Bird-Messengers 14:35 7. Nzambi Mpungu's Ambassador 15:37 8. Why the Crocodile Does Not Eat the Hen 17:37 9. The Three Brothers 19:54 10. The Story of a Partnership 21:45 Closing theme Register of the book's remaining matter: of the tales in Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort not heard in Part 1 or here, fifteen stand excluded under this shelf's standing exclusions (death staged for amusement, revenge killing played for satisfaction, scenes of maiming and torment, tales turning on combat or endurance ordeals, a duelling challenge, a child beaten to death, a terrorised child, a child endangered in the bush, an adultery accusation that endangers a wife, a grisly childbirth rite, a fumbling sorcerer tale whose obscenity lies in euphemism, and extended phallic trickster obscenity), and two — a fetish-driver's tale and a charm against a husband, both carrying bare period caste and race terms — stand on the bench awaiting the owner's sight; one tale of two brothers is held for a ruling. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo) by R. E. Dennett (1898), public domain — the closing specimen tale of Chapter II, tales XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI and Appendix I complete and in book order. Narrated by Violetta. Theme: Midnight Forbidden Saxophone.

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  • S148 · E1
    October 27 · 32 min

    Folk Tales of Malta — Part 1: Golden-Ear · Leila and Keila · The Purse · The Bird Whose Song Made People a Year Younger | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Malta — Part 1 (Golden-Ear · Leila and Keila · The Purse · The Bird Whose Song Made People a Year Younger) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Four folk tales of Malta, taken down by dictation on Malta and Gozo in the spring of 1903 and printed in Hans Stumme's Maltesische Märchen (Leipzig, 1904), heard in a fresh English translation made for KacheliTV from Stumme's German. In Golden-Ear, a little girl whose golden hair trails along the ground borrows a sorceress's magic wand — and pays one hair for every wish she makes, until the hair can be earned back by good works. In Leila and Keila, two devoted friends outwit the wicked governor who squeezed three hundred ounces of gold out of the poor carpenter, and win the money back from him — with interest. In The Purse, Zeppi finds a fortune and trades it away step by step — purse for house, house for garden, garden for ship, ship for horse, and so down to a dog that runs off — and goes back to his work as poor as he began. And in The Bird Whose Song Made People a Year Younger, Giuseppe buries a stranger's unburied corpse, wins his brothers back from the sorceress of the shining palace, and fetches the bird that stays silent for everyone but him. The second tale's scene is the Ottoman world of the Maltese storytellers' stock abroad; the collection itself is Malta's own, as Stumme's introduction records. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Imperial Violin Masquerade, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:37 Golden-Ear 4:30 Leila and Keila 13:03 The Purse 18:53 The Bird Whose Song Made People a Year Younger Twenty more of the book's tales are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: Little Ball · The Princess Who Slept a Hundred Years · The Golden Eagle · The Letter · The Fisherman's Son · Dschahan (the first) · Dschahan (the second) · The Ape That Carried Off a Girl · Angiolina · Sun and Moon · The Seven-Headed Serpent · The Seven Crooked Lemons · The Golden Lion · The Capuchins · The Gentleman in the Box · Caterina · The Schoolmistress · The Three Accusations · The Seven-Headed Dragon · The Man and His Sister. A twenty-first tale, The Seven Sleepers, is a saint legend and stands parked with the sacred texts. Seven further tales stand benched for a later ruling and are not read here: The Cat · The Three Wishes · Diamantina · The Priest Don Paulo · Margherita · Dschahan and the Chickpea (the fuller telling) · Of a Boy Who Fled from His Parents' House. Five clean tales are held on the bench for Part 2: Little Wrinkle-Rag · The Priest Don Isidoro · The Niece · The Jackal and the Hedgehog · Dschahan and the Chickpeas. The book's poems and riddles are not tales and are not read on this shelf. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Maltesische Märchen, Gedichte und Rätsel by Hans Stumme (Leipzig, 1904), public domain — complete and in book order, in a fresh English translation from Stumme's German made for KacheliTV. Narrated by Lulu. Theme: Imperial Violin Masquerade. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S130 · E4
    October 27 · 49 min

    Folk Tales of Greece — Part 4 (Ten Tales): The Lying Tale · The Fisher's Son and the Princess · The Man with the Travelling Chest · The Jackdaw-Child · The Seer's Gift · The Wolf, the Vixen and the Honey Pot | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Greece — Part 4 (The Lying Tale · The Fisher's Son and the Princess · The Man with the Travelling Chest · The Three Brothers Who Contend for the Bride · The Jackdaw-Child · The Lying Wager · The Seer's Gift · Zi, Ba and Achmet Zelebi · The Fisher's Child and the Elves · The Wolf, the Vixen and the Honey Pot) Ten more tales from Hahn's great collection, completing the tales that passed this shelf's screens. A liar stakes twenty purses on the tallest tale ever told — and wins by trapping his hearer in his own words. A fisher's son lets the rope be cut at the cliff's edge and wins a princess with three nuts' worth of wit. A travelling chest flies its master to a castle window, and a godfather's thanks turns to thunder in the night. Three brothers race to cure a dying princess with a scented apple, a flying rug and a far-seeing glass. A jackdaw-maiden chooses the boy who never asks where she came from. Two champion liars wager a herd of buffaloes on a donkey, a pumpkin and a fox. A charcoal-burner's daughter catches Death himself by the leg — and pays for telling. A cook's son spends earrings and an emerald to buy three nights in the bride's house and undo a witch's hair-spell. Elves keep a fisher's lost child safe in their bright hall, and set him home again. And a vixen christens her godchildren Little Beginning, Little Middle and Little Upended — out of her neighbour's honey pot. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Subterranean Earth, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters: 0:39 The Lying Tale 4:22 The Fisher's Son and the Princess 10:53 The Man with the Travelling Chest 15:22 The Three Brothers Who Contend for the Bride 22:50 The Jackdaw-Child 28:04 The Lying Wager 32:30 The Seer's Gift 36:51 Zi, Ba and Achmet Zelebi 42:09 The Fisher's Child and the Elves 44:20 The Wolf, the Vixen and the Honey Pot A note on selection: this shelf reads the Greek tales of Hahn's 1864 collection that sit within KacheliTV's house rules. Two tales are excluded by name — No. 36 (The Golden Hen) and No. 56 (The Pepper Mill); the volume's Drakos, dragon-slayer and strong-man tales are excluded as a class; and every other Greek tale of both parts of the volume was read in full and excluded by name — the register stands in the shelf's canon, so no completeness is claimed for the collection. Four tales stand benched for a ruling (Nos. 27, 54, 77 and 83) and one is held (No. 76, Dionysos); with this part, the tales that passed the shelf's screens have all been read. The collection's Albanian tales are not part of this shelf. From Griechische und albanesische Märchen by Johann Georg von Hahn (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1864), public domain — Greek tales 39, 40, 46, 47, 57, 59, 60, 71, 84 and 89, complete and in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the German. Narrated by Felix. Theme: Subterranean Earth. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S147 · E5
    October 27 · 48 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog" (1899) — the most beloved love story in Russian literature — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. Dmitri Gurov, a Moscow banker not yet forty, is holidaying alone in Yalta when a new face appears on the embankment: a young lady in a beret, walking a white spitz. He sets out to make her acquaintance as one more easy, fleeting adventure of the kind his bitter experience has taught him to expect. Anna Sergeyevna, married at twenty to a man she calls a lackey, has come to Yalta burning with curiosity for another life. What begins between them as a seaside romance neither of them takes seriously becomes, back in Moscow, under the first snow, the one true thing in Gurov's double life — and the story of how a man who called women "the lower race" learned, with his hair already turning grey, to love for the first time. Chekhov ends the tale where it truly begins: with the end still far, far away, and the most complicated and difficult part only just starting. The parts: 0:39 — Part One: Yalta — a new face on the embankment, the little white dog, and a holiday romance neither of them takes seriously 9:09 — Part Two: Moscow under the first snow — the double life, the secret journey, and the theatre 23:35 — Part Three: the Moscow meetings — a love confessed, and a life split in two 39:34 — Part Four: Anna's visits, two grey heads in the mirror, and the most difficult part only just beginning Source: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), «Дама с собачкой» ("The Lady with the Dog"), first published in the journal Russkaya Mysl, No. 12, 1899 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation used. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Silas, with Felix as Dmitri Gurov, Violetta as Anna Sergeyevna, Magnolia as Gurov's wife, Orson as the Official, and Lulu as Gurov's daughter. Music: the theme (Falling Leaves at the Ice Cliffs) opens the tale, returns briefly between the parts, and closes it. No music plays under the narration. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 5. The shelf so far: Lefty, by Nikolai Leskov · The Queen of Spades, by Alexander Pushkin · The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol · The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy · The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S145 · E1
    October 27 · 23 min

    Folk Tales of the Cook Islands — Part 1: The Origin of Dancing · Echo; or, The Cave Fairy · Seeking for Light | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the Cook Islands — Part 1 (The Origin of Dancing · Echo; or, The Cave Fairy · Seeking for Light) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three myths of the Cook Islands, heard as their collector printed them in W. W. Gill's Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (London, 1876). In The Origin of Dancing, out of a forgotten myth of Uti and Hina, the first "great spirit-dance" is held on the sacred marae Arai-te-tonga — and Hina dances with her brothers and her children, one of whom learns that none may eat or speak until the sumptuous roasted bananas of the ovens are uncovered on the fifth day. In Echo; or, The Cave Fairy, in the days when the people of Mangaia knew nothing of fish or of fire, five boys chase two dragon-flies across the plain to the echoing cave Te-piripiri-o-te-a'iti and vanish into it after the laughing voices that answer their calls — and after them come their parents, the king himself, and the fish-catching fairies whose secret the world learns at the price of a single human life. And in Seeking for Light — Gill's English of a fragment of an ancient chant — the bracken sighs upon the sandy street at Kanga, a traitor's voice is heard at the going down of the sun, and the sound goes forth ceaselessly: "Seek light! Seek light!" The episode opens and closes with its theme, Winter Palace Rhapsody, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Origin of Dancing 7:00 Echo; or, The Cave Fairy 20:05 Seeking for Light Nothing in Gill's book has been excluded from this shelf: no tale killed anyone or ate anyone, and none was left out for danger or violence. The shelf nonetheless makes no claim of completeness for the book. Gill's volume also carries long historical annals of wars and migrations, traditional accounts of the creation and the gods (among them the Rarotonga dialogues The Creation, Primordial Man, and The Children's Bread, which stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf), song texts, notes and appendices; this first part reads narrative myths only, and further parts will draw on the bench as they are built. From Myths and Songs from the South Pacific by W. W. Gill (1876), public domain — The Origin of Dancing and Echo; or, The Cave Fairy complete, and Seeking for Light the fragment of an ancient chant Gill prints, in book order, in Gill's English. Narrated by Magnolia. Theme: Winter Palace Rhapsody. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S144 · E1
    October 27 · 30 min

    Folk Tales of Estonia — Part 1: The Milky Way · The Lucky Egg · The Spirits of the Northern Lights | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Estonia — Part 1 (The Milky Way · The Lucky Egg · The Spirits of the Northern Lights) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three folk tales of Estonia, heard in the English renderings of W. F. Kirby's The Hero of Esthonia (London, 1895), which Kirby compiled from the Estonian collections of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald and of Jannsen; Kreutzwald is known to have shaped the tales he gathered into literary form, and they are heard here as the book prints them. In The Milky Way, Lindu, keeper of the birds, refuses the North Star, the Moon and the Sun, and accepts the Northern Light — who never returns for the wedding, so Uko's winds lift her to heaven, where her bridal veil still streams across the sky. In The Lucky Egg, the herd-boy Pärtel, sponsored at his christening by a beggar and a noble lady, keeps the egg of Good Fortune safe for years, until the milk-white snake under the lime-tree stone begs for her deliverance on Midsummer Eve. And in The Spirits of the Northern Lights, a coachman hides on the runners of his master's sledge and rides to the sky-wedding of the northern spirits — and tells no one until he is old and grey. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Subterranean Earth, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Milky Way 7:24 The Lucky Egg 25:55 The Spirits of the Northern Lights Twelve more tales of the book are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: The Grateful Prince · Slyboots · The Gold-Spinners · The Wood of Tontla · The Orphan Boy and the Hell-Hounds · Bluebeard (The Wife-Murderer) · The Dragon-Slayer (The Lucky Rouble) · The Two Brothers and the Frost · The Soldier and the Devil · The Twelve Daughters · The Faithless Fisherman · The Compassionate Woodcutter. Also excluded are the book's first part — Kirby's digest of the Kalevipoeg epic — and its war ballad The Herald of War; many further tales and notices stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From The Hero of Esthonia by W. F. Kirby (1895), public domain — The Milky Way and The Spirits of the Northern Lights after Jannsen, The Lucky Egg after Kreutzwald, complete and in book order, in Kirby's English renderings. Narrated by Silas. Theme: Subterranean Earth. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S130 · E3
    October 27 · 21 min

    Folk Tales of Greece — Part 3: The Laurel-Child · The Brother-in-Law of the Lion, the Tiger and the Eagle · The Man Who Had Brains but No Money | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Greece — Part 3 (The Laurel-Child · The Brother-in-Law of the Lion, the Tiger and the Eagle · The Man Who Had Brains but No Money) Part three. Three Greek folk tales collected by Johann Georg von Hahn in Epirus and Greece and published in his Griechische und albanesische Märchen (Leipzig, 1864); heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from Hahn's German. All three tales are drawn from the volume's first part. In The Laurel-Child, a childless couple pray for a child, even if it is only a laurel pip — and from the pip grows a golden laurel tree, out of whose bark steps a maiden who over-salts a prince's dinner, is caught, is left sleeping among lemon and orange branches, and comes to his wedding in a dervish's clothes, shining like the sun. In The Brother-in-Law of the Lion, the Tiger and the Eagle, a dying king gives his three daughters to a lion, a tiger and an eagle, and hides an elf-maiden bride for his youngest son — who follows her with an iron crutch and iron shoes, is turned by his sisters into a broom and a dust-shovel to hide him from their husbands, and asks at every house where the Ilinen Bilinen Alamalakusen lie, with the marble mountains and the crystal fields. In The Man Who Had Brains but No Money, a fool who is no fool ships reed mats to Egypt where mats are cheaper, burns them for the sea-horses' gemstones, hides the gems in clay bricks, and holds merchants and partner alike to their bargains in court. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Pastoral Awe, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Laurel-Child 6:52 The Brother-in-Law of the Lion, the Tiger and the Eagle 17:20 The Man Who Had Brains but No Money Many further tales of the book are not read on this shelf. Das goldene Huhn (No. 36) and Das Pfefferkorn (No. 56) stand excluded by name after full readings, and the volume's Drakos and dragon-slayer tales and the strong-man cycle stand excluded as a class. For this shelf, every remaining tale of the volume's first and second parts was read in full: the rest were each excluded by name, a record kept in the shelf's canon; four tales of compelled marriage — Allerleirauh (No. 27), Der Jüngling, der Teufel und seine Tochter (No. 54), Der Bauer und die Elfin (No. 77) and Die Elfin als Hausfrau (No. 83) — stand benched for a ruling, and Dionysos (No. 76), a framed collector's anecdote rather than a folk tale as printed, stands held. The tales that passed and were not used here are kept for Part 4. The same volume's Albanian tales are a different shelf's ground and are not used here. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Griechische und albanesische Märchen by Johann Georg von Hahn (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1864), public domain — Greek tales 21, 25 and 38, complete and in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the German. Narrated by Amos. Theme: Pastoral Awe. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S146 · E1
    October 27 · 17 min

    Folk Tales of Liberia — Part 1: The Old Lady and the Bird · Three Royal Lovers · The Father and Three Sons · The Jealous Husband · The Two Brothers | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Liberia — Part 1 (The Old Lady and the Bird · Three Royal Lovers · The Father and Three Sons · The Jealous Husband · The Two Brothers) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Five Vai folk tales of Liberia's Cape Mount country, collected on the ground by George W. Ellis during his eight years as Secretary of the United States Legation in Liberia, and published in Chapter IX of his Negro Culture in West Africa (New York, 1914); heard here in a fresh telling in standard English. In The Old Lady and the Bird, the last living soul of a dead town shuts her eyes at a great Bird's word and finds her people, her cattle and her riches restored — all of it hanging on two eggs she must keep. In Three Royal Lovers, the sons of three kings court one princess with a bath, a feast, and a sunset walk, and the judge himself cannot decide between them. In The Father and Three Sons, three hungry brothers visit a girl in famine time and disgrace themselves one after another — until their father goes himself and does worse, and the girl covers his shame with her ring. In The Jealous Husband, a wife hides one friend in a carrying-basket and sends the other away carrying him, so that each man owes the other his life. And in The Two Brothers, a trap-maker and a cloth-maker dispute the woman who brought rice to the trap, and a King settles it with generosity. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Subterranean Earth, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 The Old Lady and the Bird 4:09 Three Royal Lovers 7:01 The Father and Three Sons 11:36 The Jealous Husband 14:29 The Two Brothers Twenty further items of the book's Chapter IX are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: The Rival Sleepers (No. 1) · Man Hunting (No. 4) · The Fly, the Crab, and the Minnow (No. 9) · The Rival Doctors (No. 11) · The Man and His Chicken (No. 12) · Three Men Want First Smoke (No. 13) · Two Boys and the Snake (No. 14) · The Rabbit, Big Snake, and the Ground Squirrel (No. 15) · The Fox and the Goat (No. 25) · The Two Faithful Friends (No. 29) · The One Eyed Monarch (No. 30) · The Blind Mori Man (No. 32) · The Little Boy and the Snake (No. 33) · The King and His Bangle (No. 36) · The Lion, the Fox, and the Monkey (No. 40) · The Two Fighters (No. 42) · Two Unfortunate Men (No. 44) · The Lion, the Leopard, and the Dog (No. 45) · Two Orphan Brothers (No. 49) · The Six Rival Heirs (No. 52). Twenty-one more tales passed the screen and stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf, and six more are held for a ruling. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Negro Culture in West Africa by George W. Ellis (New York, 1914), public domain — stories 26, 27, 35, 38 and 43, complete and in book order, in a fresh telling in standard English. Narrated by Orson. Theme: Subterranean Earth. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S143 · E1
    October 27 · 26 min

    Folk Tales of Lesotho — Part 1: The Legend of the Tortoise · The Egg · Séètètèlané | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Lesotho — Part 1 (The Legend of the Tortoise · The Egg · Séètètèlané) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three folk tales of the Basuto people, collected in Basutoland — modern Lesotho — by Édouard Jacottet himself, who lived there nearly ten years and spoke the language, and published in his Contes populaires des Bassoutos (Paris, 1895); heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from Jacottet's French. In The Legend of the Tortoise, every messenger the lion sends forgets the fruit tree's long name at the termite mound — every one, that is, except the tortoise, whose memory earns her a burial she simply digs out of by night. In The Egg, a chief's bride discovers that her unseen husband is an ostrich egg rolling round the courtyard and singing for joy; her father's medicine-charm hatches him into a man and a chief — until the eggshell fragments she kept call him back into the shell. And in Séètètèlané, the poorest of men, who lives on wild mice and wears their skins, finds an ostrich egg and gains a wife, a village and a chieftainship — all hanging on the one word he must never say to her. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Urgent Rhythms, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Legend of the Tortoise 5:16 The Egg 21:35 Séètètèlané Eleven further tales of the book are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: Le petit lièvre (No. 1) · Le chacal, la colombe et la panthère (No. 3) · Masilo et Masilonyané (No. 5) · Masilo et Thakané (No. 6) · Tsélané (No. 7) · Mosélantja (No. 8) · Nyopakatala (No. 9) · Modisa-oa-Bipodi (No. 11) · Koumongoé (No. 15) · Monyohé (No. 17) · Mosimodi et Mosimotsané (No. 19). Seven more tales passed the screen and stand on the bench for later parts of this shelf (Nos. 2, 10, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 21), and two more are benched with flags (Nos. 18 and 23). No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Contes populaires des Bassoutos by Édouard Jacottet (1895), public domain — tales IV, XII and XXII, complete and in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the French. Narrated by Felix. Theme: Urgent Rhythms. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S142 · E1
    October 26 · 24 min

    Folk Tales of Chile — Part 1: The Little Enchanted Fish · La Tenquita · The King Has a Little Horn | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Chile — Part 1 (The Little Enchanted Fish · La Tenquita · The King Has a Little Horn) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three Chilean folk tales collected from oral tradition by Ramón A. Laval and published in his Cuentos populares en Chile (Santiago, 1923); heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from the Spanish. In The Little Enchanted Fish, a fisherman who must supply the King with fish or lose his head is saved by a little red fish — at the price of the daughter who comes out to meet him — and the girl, taken to a palace at the bottom of the sea, lights the forbidden candle and sees the beautiful prince who sleeps beside her. In La Tenquita, a little bird whose foot the snow has burned follows a chain of blame — Sun, Cloud, Wind, Wall, Mouse, Cat, Dog, Stick, Fire, Water, Ox, Knife and Man — all the way to the Lord Himself, who sends her home to her nestlings with her foot made whole. And in The King Has a Little Horn, a barber sworn to secrecy over the King's little horn whispers the secret into a hole in the earth — until the little capachito flowers that sprout there proclaim it to the whole city. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Crimson Peak, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:39 The Little Enchanted Fish 11:16 La Tenquita 18:33 The King Has a Little Horn Further tales of Part One are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: El Soldadillo (No. 1) · Delgadina y el Culebrón (No. 3) · El Gallito (No. 5 — heard in Spain, not Chilean tradition) · La Tortilla o el Canarito Encantado (No. 6) · El Cuerpo sin Alma (No. 8) · Las siete Ciegas (No. 10) · Los tres Consejos (No. 12) · El Loro Adivino (No. 13) · Hermosura del Mundo (No. 16) · El Árbol de las tres Manzanas de Oro (No. 17) · Los Hijos del Pescador (No. 18) · El Compadrito León, potito quemado (No. 19) · El Miñaco (No. 20) · Chilindrín y Chilindrón (No. 21) · Juan Valiente, el de la Vaquilla (No. 22) · Gallarín y el Gigante (No. 24) · El cuento de los tres difuntos (No. 34). The book's Part Two, "Mitos, Tradiciones, Casos" — 43 short belief-notes, legends and memorates, not tales proper — stands on the bench as a class and is not read here; three of its items are excluded by name: El Chumaco · El Cabro viejo · El Zapatero que se volvía gallo. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Cuentos populares en Chile by Ramón A. Laval (1923), public domain — tales II, IV and VII of Part One, complete and in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the Spanish. Narrated by Amos. Theme: Crimson Peak. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S141 · E1
    October 26 · 44 min

    Folk Tales of Zambia — Part 1: Njerenjere · What Do You Mean, Block of Wood? · How I Shall Be Admired! · Branch Off, Blaze of Fire · The Little Iron House | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Zambia — Part 1 (Njerenjere · What Do You Mean, Block of Wood? · How I Shall Be Admired! · Branch Off, Blaze of Fire · The Little Iron House) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Five folk tales of the Bene-Mukuni and the Ba-Tonga of Northern Rhodesia, from J. Torrend's Specimens of Bantu Folk-Lore from Northern Rhodesia (1921), heard here in Torrend's own English translations. In Njerenjere, the king's messenger Rumba sings his incantation beneath the mushroom umbrella to fetch the dwarf bride Malambo; her mother's stitching song is a threat never enacted, and the marriage is completed with cattle for the whole family. In What Do You Mean, Block of Wood?, Kasere, refused a wife, carves one from a block of wood; a cowry on her head makes her a maiden, the king's people carry her off, and Kasere's drumming shames the court until he takes the cowry away and she is a block again. In How I Shall Be Admired!, the frightened adults flee the enormous snake, leaving their bows behind, and the children simply carry it to court on their shoulders — where the king dismisses it as an ugly bit of a snake. In Branch Off, Blaze of Fire, the girl ordered thrown away is fostered in secret by an old woman, and her song from the rabbit hole — "You have hurt me, Drums" — brings her home, and to marriage. And in The Little Iron House, Master Rabbit builds a house of galvanized iron for the rabbit girl, and elephant, lion, gnu, eland, zebra and leopard all knock and are refused in song; she accepts only Master Rabbit. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Blazing Fire, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 Njerenjere 8:33 What Do You Mean, Block of Wood? 19:48 How I Shall Be Admired! 24:37 Branch Off, Blaze of Fire 36:26 The Little Iron House Seventeen further tales of the book are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name after a full reading: Part I — How Can I Silence Katubi? (I) · Father, Wait for Me (II) · Let the Big Drum Roll (IV) · Alas! Father! At the Temple (VI) · I Am Calling You Loud (VIII) · Open, Open, Little Bird (IX) · Little Bead! Little Bead! (X) · I Am Tembwe (XII) · First, Let Me Hand Over (XIII) · Little Old Woman There! (XIV) · To Be Marked! (XV) · Mother, Come Back (XVI); Part II — How Thick the Bush Is To-Day! (III) · Camundari (IV) · I Shall Reveal Thee (V) · My Berries! (VI) · Dance Like That! (VIII). Five more stand on the bench, held, not failures — Part I III (As I Am Be-Thankful, I Go Back) and XVIII (Kapepe, the Little Feather), Part II I (Drum, You Have Hurt Me), II (I Don't Want To) and IX (Give Me a Little Tobacco) — needing adjudication or a by-name ruling before any later use. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Specimens of Bantu Folk-Lore from Northern Rhodesia by J. Torrend (1921), public domain — in Torrend's own English translations. Narrated by Morgana. Theme: Blazing Fire. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S147 · E3
    October 26 · 1 hr 23 min

    Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol's "The Overcoat" (1842) — the tale Russian literature is said to have walked out of — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin is a quiet copying clerk in a St. Petersburg department, mocked by everyone and content with his letters — until the winter frost defeats his threadbare old coat. The tailor Petrovich will not mend it: a new one must be made. Akaky saves kopeck by kopeck, starves his little life down to a single shining goal — and for one evening, in a new overcoat with a fur collar, he is the happiest man in Petersburg. Then, crossing a deserted square at night, he meets two men with mustaches. What follows — the great Personage who could not be troubled, the fever, and the ghost afterward seen near the Kalinkin Bridge — is Gogol's tender, funny, and quietly terrifying masterpiece, told complete and uncut. The parts: 0:38 — Part One: a clerk named for his father, the copying room, and a young man's small mercy 15:19 — Part Two: the frost, Petrovich the tailor, the great saving, and the new overcoat 40:17 — Part Three: the great day, the name-day party, and the walk home across the square 50:56 — Part Four: the robbery, the Important Personage, the fever, and the end of Akaky Akakievich 71:40 — Part Five: the ghost by the Kalinkin Bridge, the general's overcoat, and the last apparition Source: Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), «Шинель» ("The Overcoat"), first published 1842 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation used. Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Amos, with Felix as Akaky Akakievich, Orson as Petrovich the tailor, Silas as the Important Personage, Violetta as the Mother, Scratch as the Watchman, Bruno as the Assistant Superintendent, Benedetto as the Doctor, and Lulu as the Daughter — with Felix returning as the Ghost. Music: the theme (Pastoral Awe) opens the tale, returns briefly between the parts, and closes it. No music plays under the narration. A licensed recording of howling wind (CC0, Wikimedia Commons) touches two winter scenes. Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 3. The shelf so far: Lefty, by Nikolai Leskov · The Queen of Spades, by Alexander Pushkin · The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S140 · E1
    October 26 · 31 min

    Folk Tales of Libya — Part 1: The Merchant's Son Muhammed · Dschuha and the Jew · Dschuha, the Cow, and His Daughter | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Libya — Part 1 (The Merchant's Son Muhammed · Dschuha and the Jew · Dschuha, the Cow, and His Daughter) Part one — the premiere of a new shelf. Three tales of the city of Tripoli, collected there by Hans Stumme and published in his Märchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis in Nordafrika (Leipzig, 1898); heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from Stumme's German. These are tales of the city of Tripoli, and are billed as such — no claim is made for Libya as a whole. In The Merchant's Son Muhammed, a bankrupt merchant's son, refused four or five medjidie by his rich brother at his wife's childbed, is taken up by an old hadj who, on Muhammed's oath to obey, clothes him, seats him as a mock Governor of Alexandria, draws twelve hundred duro of peace money from the frightened brother, and then installs him in Alexandria in earnest, where he judges justly for a year — until Harun Arraschid hears of a governor he never appointed, and the old man's production of Harun's own lost note turns the hearing to laughter. In Dschuha and the Jew, Dschuha prays for exactly a thousand denars — nine hundred and ninety-nine he will not take — pockets the nine hundred and ninety-nine thrown down to test him, and defeats the claim before the qadi by predicting it too well. And in Dschuha, the Cow, and His Daughter, the sales patter that sold a worthless cow dear — young, and already six months pregnant — is delivered again, word for word, to his daughter's suitors. The episode opens and closes with its theme, Feline Grace, heard also briefly between the stories. Chapters 0:38 The Merchant's Son Muhammed 23:21 Dschuha and the Jew 27:29 Dschuha, the Cow, and His Daughter Seven further prose tales of the book are not read on this shelf, each excluded by name under the shelf's standing content law: Die Geschichte von dem Manne und dem Löwen (I) · Die Geschichte der Udea (II) · Die Geschichte von Hälbchen (III) · Die Geschichte von Muhammed dem Fingerspreizer (IV) · Die Geschichte von Buk Ettemsuch (V) · Die Geschichte von Dschemil und Dschemila (VI) · Die Geschichte von der Selbsterniedrigerin (VII) · Die Geschichte vom Hunde (IX). The book's poetic part (Teil B) — songs and verses, not tales — is benched as verse. No claim of completeness for the book is made. From Märchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis in Nordafrika by Hans Stumme (1898), public domain — in a fresh in-house English translation from the German. Narrated by Bruno. Theme: Feline Grace. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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